Pesticides
Any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests.
What is a pesticide?
Increased production through breeding, fertilizer, and irrigation.
What is the Green Revolution?
Type of agriculture in which multiple crops grow in the same place
What is polyculture?
The big 3
What is wheat, rice, and corn?
Can only go a few days without
What is water?
The 4 main types of pesticides.
What are herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and disinfectants.
The Green Revolution was the ____ agricultural revolution
Type of agriculture which grows aquatic species in net pins or tanks
What is Aquaculture?
The 3 types of micronutrients
What are carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins?
Can go a few weeks without
What is food?
Developed when pests eventually become immune to pesticides
What is pesticide resistance?
Stronger but shorter crops
What are semi-dwarf crops?
Type of agriculture which cultivates crops in an urban environment
What is Urban Farming?
amount of energy needed to raise 1kg of water by 1 degree celsius
What is a calorie?
The amount of energy needed to raise 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius
What is a calorie?
A series of pest management evaluations, decisions and controls
What is IPM?
American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the Green Revolution.
Type of agricultural technique which grows plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil.
What is Hydroponic Farming?
Main animal protein source for 1.5 million people
What is seafood?
Where most of our grains go
What is biofuels and feeding cattle?
Steps of IPM
1. Set Action Thresholds
2. Prevention
3. Monitor and Identify Pests
4. Control
Science and technology of producing and using plants in agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, recreation, and land restoration
What is agronomy?
Type of agriculture which increases crop yields
Humans are consuming too much of ____ and ____
What is dairy and beef?
Occurs when people do not consume enough calories or do not eat a sufficient variety of foods to get all the vitamins or minerals they need to stay healthy.
What is malnutrition?